Game Review: Sims 2 on the DS
I wrote this up for my own blog, but I wanted to share it here, too.
You’re on your way from someplace much cooler to someplace much cooler when your car breaks down in Strangetown, and the Sims 2 game begins. A local yokel says he can fix that, but while you’re waiting (it goes without saying that the required part’s on backorder in Strangetown), you take over as manager of a creepy, rundown hotel, in this little town of odd events.
Almost everyone who’s played the Sims knows that the ghosts, alien abductions and general parmanormal silliness are the best part of the Sims, so the makers of Sims 2 for the DS toned down the time spent watching your Sim sleep or cook dinner, and increased the zany encounters.
You play as one Sim, not a household, and the story is much more linear than the PC versions. It’s also no longer a sandbox game. Players have limited control over hotel guests, but important penthouse guests arrive, check in, and send players on unavoidable missions. I happened to like the penthouse missions, especially goth cultist Ava Cadarva, but it wasn’t the almost-unlimited sandbox play style we knew and loved in other Sims games.
Via Visiting Strangetown: Sims 2 on the DS on Simpson’s Paradox.
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By MastersDegreeBusiness, May 7, 2009 @ 8:05 am
Excellent!!!great game.